Understanding Common Law Legislation: Drafting and Interpretation
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (584 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199247773 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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`Francis Bennion brings with him years of experience in legislative drafting The treatment is uniformly illuminating, and the style is homely.' The Commonwealth Lawyer`Readers who have come to expect a degree of iconoclasm from Francis Bennion will not be disappointed. he includes the occasional throwaway line which reverberates. 118, July 2002` fascinating and entertaining The text is clear and accessible, enlivened by examples and enhanced by chapter summaries.' New Law Journal, 8 Feb 2002 . All this serves only to increase the pleasure of reading the book: it never affects the careful objectivity which Bennion brings to bear on his subject.' Law Quarterly Review Vol
As a constitutional lawyer, he has also advised at various times the governments of Pakistan, Ghana, Jamaica, and Gibraltar. He drafted constitutions for Pakistan (1956) and Ghana (1959-1961) on those countries attaining the status of independent republics. He was also formerly law tutor at St Edmund Hall in the University of Oxford, and is still a member of the University's law faculty..
"Quirky Books - Bennion's Understanding Common Law Legislation" according to janis mcsweeney. Quirky Books delivered the book in excellent order and in a very short period time esp. given it was going to Western Australia.Bennion has a recognisable depth of knowledge and the text is written with insight and wit making it both accessible and pleasurable for the reader.
A feature of this world is that nowadays it largely operates through statutes enacted by a country's democratic legislature, and that these mainly fall to be construed according to a uniform system of rules, presumptions, principles and canons evolved over centuries by common law judges. The book distills and updates within a brief compass the author's published writings on statute law and statutory interpretation which span a period of nearly forty years, being contained in half a dozen books and many more articles.. There are many countries that use and apply the common law, which collectively may be called the common law world. The statutes subject to this interpretative regime may be called common law statutes. They are the main subject of this book, along with the said uniform system